Tomorrow (2022)

A learning experience.

I read a few reviews after i watched this drama and was amazed how everyone processed it differently. I myself loved it and the cast did a wonderful job portraying there characters. The storyline was unique when Choi jun woong was involved in stopping a suicide and was accidentally injured causing him to be in a coma for either 6 months or 3yrs. He find out that he is neither dead or alive and is now a Grim Reapers for the RM team (risk management to prevent a suicide ) for 6mo. He causes problems, but also fixes them. I liked how they tried to instill that *Words" can be interpreted as helpful, hurtful and harmful . As the old sayings was "The pen is mighty than a sword" was used to instill positive thoughts and feelings, but as time went on the sword became sharper and used the pen to install harm. Sadly we live in a world that uses other malicious things like cyberbullying, IG, tweets, tiktoc etc. belittling people who they dont even know or just jump on the bandwagon to get likes. I felt that this show was trying to express how ones words and comments can be positive and instill hope. When other are negative and cause despair the complete loss or absence of hope which causes failure and pushes one to suicides. Some people are crying out to get help and other feel like a burdens to someone, but if only someone could lend an ear and listen and show them there away out. Remember if you dont have something nice to say dont say it at all.

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UNDERATED

This show was so good. I say it is underated because i feel alot of people dont want to watch sad things but there was alot of messages in this show that need to be shared and people need to see because people in real life go through these things or have gone through them.
On a lighter note i loved rowoon's character and all the characters for that matter. I do wish there was more between miss koo and mr park. Iove their story and wish they did more with their relationship. Do i wish for a seaspn 2 yes of course in hopes rowoon can come back and join the team and i could see more relationship development. Thats wishful thinking because i know they wont make a season 2 ㅠㅠ

Needless to say JUST WATCH IT.

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Getting more and more interesting..

Each episodes/story of individual repesented morale and value behind their struggles in life.

I didnt know why I wiped like crazy person over the first lady story (highschool trauma). It was real good moment when ChoiJoonWoong hugged her and gave the encouragement words. That's exactly the kind of mental support we want. Without realizing, as any human being whom been stressing about life - we all actually just wanted to hear that kind of simple words. (Curious what he said? then start watching this show! Lol)

Also, there were times, I really do feel like slapping that CJW. He's just too reckless! Sigh.. but that makes his personality outstand in this show. So I'm gonna suck it up. Moreover, I can wait to find out the history of Ms. Kim's sin and death..

But well, yeah.. Is good show and worth your time :)

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Si vous avez une longue liste en attente, vous pouvez sans hésiter zapper celui-là.

Je devrais pouvoir arrêter ce drama et passer à autre chose. J'ai eu la mauvaise idée de le commencer avec chéri et mes deux ados. Ce qui, moralement, me ferait passer pour une mauvaise personne si je les laissais seuls face à ce ........
Je le pense très fort, mais afin d'éviter de froisser la susceptibilité de ceux qui ont aimé, je me contenterais de dire ce que je n'ai pas du tout aimé.

- Faucheuse! La mort = La Faucheuse. C'est une personnification de la mort. Le mot faucheur n'existe pas pour les FAUCHEUSES d'apparences masculines. Le faucheur est une personne qui fauche des végétaux. Alors, oui la FAUCHEUSE est représentée avec une faux, l'outil qui sert en effet à faucher les végétaux. Mais le faucheur n'a rien à voir avec la Mort, la Faucheuse. Sincèrement, j'ai tellement l'habitude de lire de mauvais sous-titres qu'un de plus ou de moins ne changerait rien à ma vie, mais quand mes ados commencent à dire "Ah ouais, lui c'est le faucheur....", hé bien cela me fait bondir hors de ma zone de "je m'en fous"! Mon 16 ans va passer son épreuve de français cette année, j'aimerais éviter au possible de lui faire écrire des c**** sur un texte de Victor Hugo ou de Lamartine....C'est donc sur état d'esprit un peu énervée que je commence ma petite critique (petite, car au final, il n'y a pas grand chose à dire).

- L'histoire est banale. Si je voulais une petite dose d'adrénaline, ce n'est pas ici que je le trouverais. Des défunts devenant des faucheuses avec pour mission d'empêcher le suicide chez les morts, pourquoi pas. Mais le scénariste n'a pas su développer un monde unique et riche, que cela soit visuellement ou dans le fond. Si je prend l'exemple de "Rainless Love in a Godless Land" où la richesse de ce monde de déité était intéressant et subtil, ici c'est tout le contraire. Au lieu de nous créer un monde à part, quelque chose qui parlerait à notre imagination, tout n'est que cliché dans la représentation de l'au-delà (ou plutôt ce qui est entre les mortels et l'au-delà). Et lorsque le scénariste (ils sont en fait 3) décide de vouloir faire un truc qui sortirait de l'ordinaire, il préfère nous transformer l'empereur de Jade en une figure féminine. Alors, je sais que dans le monde où nous vivons actuellement, c'est tendance de mettre des femmes à la place des hommes, des femmes partout, des femmes à l'égal de l'homme, etc.... Je suis moi même une femme qui gère son monde de gars d'une main de fer (dans un gant de velours), et pourtant, rien ne m'horripile plus que de vouloir absolument mettre la figure féminine à la place de l'homme partout, sans aucune raison. Je bondirais tout autant si demain Athéna devenait un homme sous prétexte qu'elle est la déesse de la guerre et de la sagesse....
Le scénariste nous pond donc des clichés à tour de bras sans aucune consistance. Je le redis, les clichés, s'ils sont bien faits, ne sont pas un problème. J'ai eu du mal à adhérer à leur monde, tout de blanc et de noir vêtu ( quel originalité, n'est ce pas? Si seulement cela avait été moitié aussi bien fait que "Along with the Gods: The Last 49 Days ....) ". Et puis zute quoi, des faucheuses qui se disputent comme des mortels, se battant comme des chiffonniers (c'est à dire sans aucune classe), agissant de manière aussi infantiles avec des défauts typiquement humains, cela fait peur, n'est-ce pas? Et le téléphone? c'est un peu drôle de se dire qu'avec les super pouvoirs des dieux et tout le tralala, ils doivent utiliser des smartphones, subir l'attaque d'un virus informatique, et j'en passe. Le monde des faucheuses ne serait qu'au final l'image du nôtre, avec des petits pouvoirs en plus? Rien de très glamour au final et qui ferait rêver.

- Le thème du suicide est un thème sensible. Que cela soit au niveau de la violence que subissent les victimes comme le harcèlement ou le viol....Je n'ai pas réussi à ressentir de la peine ou ne serait-ce qu'un chouilla de compassion. Je peux pleurer comme une madeleine dans "Sometimes when we touch" mais ici, rien, absolument rien. Je pense que cela vient du fait que les victimes ne semblent pas avoir de vie, de famille, d'amis en dehors de ce qu'ils subissent. Nous ne vivons que l'instant T de leur malheur, et tout est centré sur eux, leurs désarrois et leurs épreuves. Mais rien de ce qui les entoure ne semble exister, ces personnages n'ont donc pas de réel profondeur. C'est bien dommage.

- Les protagonistes.....sans être mauvais, aucun ne sort du lot et nous n'arrivons pas à nous attacher aux héros. Pire, nous n'arrivons pas à avoir de l'empathie pour ce qu'ils ont vécu. De manière inconsistant, ils passent de cas à cas sans pour autant développer entre eux une solide relation qui aurait pu compenser un scénario bancal (comme "taxi driver" par exemple). C'est donc un trio fade et dont les répliques et traits d'humour tombent souvent à plat qui nous est offert ici. (Ah, pourquoi Ro Woon a-t-il donc joué dedans).

Sincèrement, je ne trouve que peu, pour ne pas dire aucune, de qualité dans ce drama. Cela semble être le premier scénario des scénaristes, espérons qu'ils feront mieux la prochaine fois.

Mes ados ne semblent pas réclamer la suite du visionnage. Avec un peu de chance, ils vont l'oublier et je n'aurais pas besoin de le finir.

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now i like this kind of drama too

Firstly the cast is soo fiiine, I started watching this drama mainly becouse of Rowoon he amazed me with his acting skills for the first time in extraordinary you and this, it just felt so real. Also I really like the female lead too and her character, she has strong personality and she's also good in fighting. I loved the parts where she was fighting with the bad guys the most.
Story? I really liked it and when i was thinking about watching it i had hard time choosing if i should, becouse the main reason is that i don't really like kdramas with gream reapers but this, it never made me feel bored and i was fascinated the whole time, i was waiting every week for new episodes. But i haven't watched it all yet so.....
And the only thing that it lacked was that this kdrama has only slight romance or even maybe none. its just about my preference but i think it would be better with it. Im right now on 13 and half episode so i can't really tell much but its ending in a few episodes so.

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The theme is interesting, but the drama is not

The Korean society seems more prone to suicide than most of countries. The theme is important, but the drama did not kept me interest in it .
The way the afterlife organisation was constructed was annoying to me. Lots of holes with weird outcomes. The past story of the characters were very superficial, the different teams, etc.

STORY - maybe a message of hope to some people who are in a down part of their life. For them, please keep up! But nothing more...
Most of the suicide stories were very boring for me, but maybe lots of people can see themselves in those struggles.

ACTING - wonderful the lead actress. The other 2 members of her team were ok. And that is it.

MUSIC - do not remember any of the songs or melodies...

REWATCH - never. There isn't a single scene I would like to see again.

OVERALL - a different theme rapped up in a fantasy world of the death. I realised that there are thousands of grim reapers with nationality! Amazing!

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Talvez o maior acerto da MBC até hoje

Eu estou sem palavras para essa produção. Normalmente eu fujo de dramas com finais previstos, como Tomorrow, Bad and Crazy e tantos outros, mas resolvi assistir esse não só pelas infundadas polêmicas mas também pelo senso de proximidade à realidade que foi tão comentado nas redes sociais.

Logo no primeiro episódio já fui surpreendida e as surpresas não pararam até o final. Há muito tempo um drama não me fazia errar tanto nas minhas apostas, chega a ser cômico uma história completamente prevista mas nem um pouco previsível.
Me encantei por cada um dos personagens e suas peculiaridades, as atuações, trilha sonora e os efeitos especiais não deixaram a desejar também.

Quero chamar atenção para o Rowoon nesse caso, é visível a evolução dele como ator e só agregou acertos ao elenco impecável.
Quanto as histórias, talvez seja aqui que Tomorrow desandou, tirando alguns arcos extremamente emocionantes e fidedignos, outros romantizaram um pouco as situações deixando um ar utópico meio descompensado. Entretanto, não considero isso um problema, são em pequenos passos que começam os avanços e essa utopia se faz necessária para tornar a produção comercial e atingir públicos maiores que precisam dessas mensagens.

Encerro trazendo highlights à primeira e a última história, ambas sobre bullying, o físico e o virtual, respectivamente. Foram aqui as jogadas mais certeiras da MBC, duras e necessárias críticas sociais que não é sempre que vemos serem tão bem retratadas pela própria indústria.

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Too Episodical and Not Enough Backstory

TLDR: Started off strong, too many episodical episodes, not enough Worldbuilding for the Reapers and their rules, not enough Character Backstories/Development for our 4-5 main characters, too many messages (e.g. suicide is a sin) I disagreed with.

As the title suggests, I felt this drama was too episodical when all I really wanted was backstories and worldbuilding for our Grim Reapers and the Grim Reaper world. The episodes were fine a 1 to 2 capsulated stories until about episode 8, and then I was getting bored of the format and just wanted to know all about our 3 main reapers (Koo, Lim, and Park), plus the boss of them. I wanted so much more worldbuilding of the Reaper world, the rules, their day to day life, what they did in their free time etc. by that point.

So the last 8 or so episodes were a bit of a drag. I absolute loved the two episodes spent on Lim and his backstory but I feel like we super super rushed through Park and Koo's -- also I was expecting there to be a twist such as he's actually her son or something, rather than the predictable story we did get.

I wish we had gotten like the first 8 episodes as is, and then the last 8 episodes were actual worldbuilding and backstories of the Reapers and the Reaper World -- it fell very lacklustre at towards the end.

Also, you can see the Christian values and the influence it has on Korean culture within this drama such as "reap your sins before death", "purgatory before you can go to heaven or reincarnation", and "suicide is murder and a sin" which are things I personally disagree with.
I AM happy that towards the end we do see Park change in his thoughts of "suicide is sin and people who kill themselves should suffer in hell" somewhat, but I wanted something more explicit from him.

Another thing is you can see the heavy handiedness of the Pro-South-Korea messages throughout the show where it makes the Reaper world very unequal/unfair. I'll post the full explanation at the very end because I get very detailed and could make people uncomfortable and angry but TLDR: there are some Pro-Korea episodes, and one is basically "look how amazing South Koreans are and we're so amazing that after death, even if we killed people in war, we aren't going to hell for these sins because we were the winners." Which, I thought the Reapers were supposed to be fair? So surely, they should be going to hell because they did sin?!

If we had been given more details and explainations in the show for things like this rather than have 13+ episodicals. Even just a simple "if you're killing people in self-defense or without malicious intent (such as defending your country from invaders) then it's not seen as a sin in the Reaper world." would've been good enough for me, but even this isn't explained.


Conclusion: Started off strong, too many episodical episodes, not enough Worldbuilding for the Reapers and their rules, not enough Character Backstories/Development for our 4-5 main characters, too many messages (e.g. suicide is a sin) I disagreed with.


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Here's the long version of my Pro-Korea part:

We see two episodes of two different wars (WW2 and the Korean War).

First episode: it's never said or confirmed that the South Korean soldiers will be sent to hell for killing people (when killing is very obviously a sin). This show very much felt like it was implying: so long as you're defending your country and you're on the side that wins, killing people is absolutely fine according to the Korean Reapers. But neither the rules nor explanation is in the show.

Secondly, we have a heavy Pro-Korea and Anti-Japan episode which to me felt very intentional (therefore harmful) which is what I disliked about it.

If you don't know Korea-Japan relations and history this is a very important, eye-opening, horrific, and informative episode. Everyone should know about this history, absolutely!

But, I personally felt the message of this episode is intentionally very harmful: "hey, young Koreans, Japanese imperialism did this to us and they still haven't apologised for what they did. So, we're making this episode because we want Koreans furious at Japan for another year and we wanna increase the anti-Japan views in Korea even more than they still are".

But as someone who has studied it:

Actually, Japan HAS apologised (since 2007) and has done for many times.
Korea DEMANDS apologies every single year and has done for many years (more so from great-grandchildren now rather than the people who actually suffered because most have passed away, rest their souls - which you could probably now call 'generational-trauma').
Japan HAS compensated the families and victims (apparently 1 billion yen -- although I know that it won't ever be enough for the victims).
Korean newspapers and politicians still post and encourage anti-Japan views - they literally blamed Japan for the 2022 Itaewon Halloween incident in a few newspapers - while Japan is embracing Korean culture at an alarming speed (thanks to KPop and Korean food).
This history is still not in Japanese history books (especially in school ones where they rarely learn modern history anyway).

So, as you can see, both sides are bad!

I can't help but think this episode wanted to strain Korea-Japan relations even more than it already is. It feels like the episode was created on purpose to make Koreans continue the rage and the pain, rather than "this was absolutely horrific but it's time to heal; educate ourselves and others while trying to build a better future and relationship with each other both inside and outside Korea." and I personally find that in very bad taste.

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TOO RUSHED AND 0 CHEMISTRY

I binged it over 3 days and found myself fast forwarding half the episodes. More effort was given to aesthetics than to the dialogues which were bleak and not strong enough for the theme. IDK how these many liked it. Maybe I just saw better ones than this in this genre. The chemistry was very forced and due to lack of proper backstory the couple had not even a thread to romantic look between them. Also rowoon was very annoying and stupid with no character development. The rules of the reapers were vague and unclear as they were ONLY applied to the scenes to enable the story.
As someone working in the mental health field, what I liked was how the problems were portrayed BUT I absolutely hated the way they were handled. Such serious issues like PTSD, Eating disorders, depression etc... that are serious enough to warrant suicide CANNOT be solved in minutes or through words of comfort alone. Their attempt to stop suicide was very lethargic contrary to what they say and that red light app was yucky. I cannot even remeber any ost.
overall a decent watch which satisfies your eyes but not your brain or heart

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Choro, choro e mais choro.

A forma como esse drama aborda a questão do suicídio de uma forma respeitosa e bonita (em forma de esperança), me fez terminar esse drama que eu estava enrolando em um dia.

Saber que alguns dos casos abordados aqui, como as mulheres de conforto na Invasão Japonesa, assim a crítica em como o governo negligenciou e ainda negligencia seus veteranos de guerra e idosos, me fez ter um sentimento tão mal, tão forte em relação a isso.

E saber que atualmente, na época que assisti esse drama, o Japão não reconheceu o genocídio que cometeu durante as suas invasões me faz me sentir tão mal por todos esses povos.
E a questão de aposentadoria ser algo tão difícil para os idosos coreanos, principalmente aqueles que viveram o período de guerra, é de quebrar o coração.

A forma que o drama abordou o suicídio de uma forma delicada e respeitosa, foi divino. Até por que esse assunto, saúde mental, é considerado um tabu na Coreia e saber que esse é o quarto países no ranking de suicídio... Me fez pensar.

Sobre esse drama eu só tenho pontos positivos, principalmente:

- Elenco.
- Cinematografia.
- Enredo.
- Músicas.
- História.

O único ponto que eu posso talvez me atrever a reclamar é como eu queria mais desenvolvimento do relacionamento dos nossos queridos ceifadores, entendo que o fio deles foi cortado, mais imagina o quão lindo seria a história deles juntos assim, agora como ceifadores? Até por que eles não irão reencarnar.


Enfim, é um drama muito bom, digo também, uma obra magnifica que aborda assuntos pesados com respeito e delicadeza, o que deixa toda a situação mais leve de se ver. Esse drama são para pessoas que buscam algo profundo, sério mais delicado, com um certo alívio cômico entre as cenas.

Acredito que super vale a pena esse drama.
Terminado: 21/02/2024.

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Tomorrow é necessário.

Tomorrow é um drama que precisa da apreciação certa. Ele fala de um assunto muito delicado e que muita gente ignora e acha que é futilidade de quem passa por esse momento difícil. Tomorrow realmente foi um drama incrível em tudo. O roteiro e as histórias entrelaçadas, o elenco que tem bastante química e interpretou muito bem os personagens.
Extremamente necessário pra todo mundo. Lição de empatia.
O final: Todo mundo queria eles juntos mas não ia acontecer, a consequência da quebra do fio do destino era lidar com esse fardo e pelo menos ele descobrindo a verdade é um peso tirado dos ombros e eles ainda podem conviver enquanto estão juntos trabalhando como ceifadores. Acho que o mais triste pra mim foi a pequena despedida do Jun woong. Eu realmente queria que ele se lembrasse deles no final. Mas ele ainda tem a mesma essência de antes eu amo kkkkk salvando pessoas o tempo todo
"Somos ceifadores."

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My legit comfort drama

This drama overall is an outstanding drama for me.its been a really long time since the last time there was a similar story to this one and finally tomorrow did not disappoint!

I love how the efforts of trying to convey the messages to never scared of living for tomorrow through variety types of cases that was a really sensitive topic each one of them had.The scripts were written very carefully that I could spot comfort words repeatedly.

Acting skills performed by the leads Kim Hee Sun,Rowoon,Lee Soo Hyuk and Yoon Ji On were also felt real even though there was a lack of rowoon's sometimes but it didnt get the drama to downhill at all and I really cannot deny the fact that his acting has improved miles better than in his previous dramas .I believe he will eventually perform perfectly in his next projects as his role here in tomorrow had a full package of mixed emotions almost in every episode and i suppose he has already had an experience to live more characters like he did here soonn!!

Not to forget about the CGI too !! Certain scenes from the flashback of old times were so aesthetically made and directed.The director of this drama often worked in directing movies before so maybe that explains why i always felt the touch of a masterpiece like i was watching a movie when i was watching it.

If you're looking a good fantasy drama to binge watching,no doubt on this one for me .the ratings didnt justify this drama enough but nevertheless, its still a good one.dont look any further!

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